intensive day to day monitoring of wait listed passengers
South Eastern Railway has been augmenting its popular trains on a daily basis following intensive day to day monitoring of wait listed passengers. In the month of July 2015, as many as 274 coaches of different types were added to various long distance popular trains to clear the summer rush. This included twenty one AC-2 tier coaches, twenty two AC 3-tier coaches, two Composite AC coaches, 141 Sleeper class coaches and eighty eight Seating reserved coaches.
A total number of 19,518 extra passengers were carried in July 2015 in augmented coaches in the reserved segment.
A sum of Rs.1.08 crores has been earned from the extra coaches attached to different popular trains in the month of July 2015.